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On September 24, the film “Am I: Too African to be American or Too American to be African” was shown at Cornell as part of a series of pop up screenings being held on the east coast.The documentary, which explores the bi-cultural identity formations of young African women in America and West Africa, comes from filmmaker Nadia Sasso, a third year...
This video shows the impact that diverse Cornell faculty make as 2016 Public Voices fellows by sharing their ideas with the public. Their collaboration and engagement has led to 60 op-eds reaching millions of people, and is part of an initiative to make public more of the world's best ideas.This news item was also published on the Cornell...
Africana Studies and Research Center launches their latest newsletter! Our newsletter highlights Africana's academic activites and programming from 2015-2016. Learn about Africana Studies & Research Center faculty accomplishments, student highlights, and articles, read more......
Almost 100 people gathered in Klarman Hall’s Rhodes • Rawlings Auditorium Sept. 19 to kick off a yearlong conversation, “Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing,” an interdisciplinary, cross-campus collaboration. Chief Sam George of the Cayuga Nation gave welcoming remarks, followed by a roundtable offering perspectives by members...
Tupac was "resurrected" in 2012 at Coachella, one of the world's pre-eminent music festivals, where he performed in one of the first concert holograms alongside former associates Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.Yet despite his global persona, few formal tributes exist for Tupac, whose mother said she spread his ashes on her North Carolina farm.His...
Police shootings of unarmed black people this past year have raised the topic of violence and policing to a national level. But other communities, like Indigenous and trans peoples and those with disabilities, also suffer from high rates of police violence. “Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing,” is a campus-wide, year-long...
"Black people do not hang themselves from trees."Weeks after a black man was found hanged in an Atlanta park, social media was rife with theories surrounding the circumstances of his death. Some people called it a lynching; authorities deemed it suicide."Black people don't hang themselves from trees, given our history, if we gonna kill...
Not too long ago, a report in the social section of one of our national dailies caught my eye. One of the celebrants was identified as “Princess, Olori, Deaconess X”. Of course, I have been around long enough to know that such collocations are standard fare in my homeland. Yet, it caught my eye. More recently, I discovered via another public...
The conversation between Cornell University Africana Studies professor Carole Boyce Davies, and radical black activist Angela Davis went something like this:“I am headed to Haiti,” Boyce Davies, a former Florida International University professor who divides her time between New York and South Florida.“Haiti?” asked Davis, a fellow author and...
At first glance, it looks like a nonsensical jumble—a word search puzzle emblazoned on a T-shirt. But on closer inspection, those letters form names: Tanisha Anderson, Miriam Carey, Kendra James, and many others. All of them, the shirt declares, are black women who were killed by police.The design is meant to underscore the fact that—even in the...
The following excerpt comes from Elle.com63 College Classes That Give Us Hope for the Next GenerationAnd also make us totally jealous of them, too. "Feminist Blogging." "Femininity, Beauty, and the Black Female Body." "Funny, You Don't Look Jewish: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Judaism."These may sound like the tightly focused titles of...
On behalf of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, I want to say that I have no new words to describe our collective shock, horror and grief at the murders in Minnesota, Texas and Louisiana. The hate, fear, and rage that motivate, encourage, and to some, legitimate the actions of those responsible for these days of blood...
In solidarity with all of our communities at Cornell University and in Ithaca, the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Latino/a Studies Program, and the Africana Studies and Research Center would like to take the opportunity to extend our condolences to the families and friends of members of those who were killed in Orlando on...
